Where is your wiggle room? Challenging the idea that 'lights out' has to be an intense commitment, this job shop created its own model for flexible unattended machining with palletized HMCs to meet JIT and prototype requirements

Job shops usually aren't associated with lights-out production. Rather than high-mix, low-volume work, it is the opposite type of work--the low-mix, high-volume production of a captive plant--that usually lends itself [...]